King Country Chronicle Saturday, May 2l, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 261, 21 May 1910, Page 2

King Country Chronicle Saturday, May 21, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The Bowling and Croquet Club social to have been held on Friday, the 27th, is unavoidably held over until the following Friday, June 3rd, as the hall had been previously engaged. The Postmaster-General has decided that in lieu of rendcring accounts for telephone bureau transactions monthly they will in future be rendered weekly. Any person desirous of receiving a daily account may do so without extra charge provided the account is paid daily.

From to-night to the end of the month Halley's comet will be plainly seen in the western sky. Setting this evening at 6.32 p.m. it will probably just be traced before it sets, but each night afterwards it sets later and later, and though the nearly full moon will dim its light, it will be clearly visible. Yet another sign of the progress of our borough is the coming of the enterprising firm of drapers, Messrs Rosenberg, who have recently sold their popular business at Hamilton. We understand they are to open their new store, just erected at the corner of Rora and King streets and now being fitted up in a very modern style, on Tuesday, 31st inst. Messrs T. H. Hall and Co., the New Zealand agents for Fry's cocoa, informs us that Captain Scott has selected their cocoas and chocolates "in preference to all others, for the British Antarctic expedition, 1910." It is interesting to note that the order, which is a large one. will be made up in New Zealand. The selection of Fry's cocoa is a tribute to British enterprise.

Mr T. Grinton, who has a Crown section 3"me eight mlies out of Te Kuiti, had the misfortune, while felling bush, to sustain a bad compound fracture of both bones in the left leg, above the ankle. The accident happened yesterday, when Mr Grinton was on his first tree for the day, as the tree fell the trunk shot out backwards and caught him on the leg. Dr Fullerton was sent for and speedily arrived at the place where the accident happened, he gave chloroform in the open and fixed up the limb. Neighbours and friends to the number of eight, carried the injured man into Te Kuiti, where he remained until the 2 a.m. train, upon which he left for the Hamilton Hospital.